Lubricator.



W. G. MANESS. LUBRICATOR.

APPLICATION IILED nuns, 1914.

1,1 20,729. Paten fied Dec. 15 1914.-

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Attorneys UNITE STARS ATENT @FEICE,

LUBRICATO R.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

Application filed January 3, 1914. Serial No. 810,233.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. MANESS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Laredo, in the county of Webb and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Lubricator, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lubricators adapted to be used in journal boxes of cars, in shaft bearings, and at any other points where it is desirable to lead the lubricant upwardly to the axle or shaft to be lubricated, whereby the use of waste or other packing saturated with oil is dispensed with.

Another object is to provide a lubricator which will adjust itself automatically to the member to be lubricated and which includes wiping means for removing surplus lubricant and returning it to the lubricant container.

A further object is to provide lubricant elevating means yieldingly mounted so as to at all times firmly engage the surface to be lubricated.

\Vith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter de scribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :I+igure 1 is a vertical section through the lubricator applied to a car axle, the journal box being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a section on line AB Fig. 1.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference C designates a car axle or the like extending into a journal box D, the bearing block or brass being indicated at E. The bottom of the box D constitutes a lubricant container and is adapted to receive the lubricator constituting the present invention. In the form of the device illustrated in the drawings, this lubricator includes a base plate 1 adapted to rest upon the bottom of the box D and having coiled springs 2 suitably secured thereto and extending upwardly therefrom. The upper ends of the springs are connected in any desired manner to a top plate 3 having a slot 4 therein. Parallel guide pins 5 extend downwardly from the top plate 8 adjacent opposite sides of the.

slot f and may be connected to the top plate In any suitable manner, as by threading them and unscrewing them into the plate. Coiled springs G are mounted on the pins and bear downwardly upon suitable stop devices such as pins 7 while their upper ends sup port an axle S on which a lubricating wheel 9 1s mounted for rotation, this wheel extending upwardly through the slot l and downwardly into the body of lubricant contained in the box D.

Secured upon the top plate 3 is a saddle 10 which may be made of sheet metal and thus capable of being bent so as to extend concentric with the axle C. A wiping pad 11 of felt or any other suitable material is secured in any desired manner upon the saddle and is designed to contact directly with the axle C. Both the saddle and the pad 11 have slots 12 therein, these slots registering with each other and being disposed directlv above the slot -l so that wheel 9 will extend through them.

In using the lubricator, the saddle is first shaped so that the pad carried thereby will fit snugly against the axle C. The said device is then placed in box D with base plate 1 resting on the bottom of the box and pad. Springs 2 will hold the pad yieldingly against the axle. The springs 6 will hold wheel 9 pressed yieldingly against the axle. Obviously when the axle C rotates, wheel 9 will also be rotated by reason of its frictional engagement therewith and this wheel will lift portions of the lubricant through the slots 4 and 12 and into contact with the axle C where it will be distributed over the bearing, surplus lubricant being removed by the wiping pad 11 and dropping back into the box D.

Importance is attached to the fact that the saddle is yieldingly supported and that the wheel is also yieldingly supported, said wheel being adapted to yield independently of the saddle.

\Vhat is claimed is 1. The combination with a lubricant container, of a lubricator including a. saddle, a wiping element supported thereby, means for yieldingly supporting the saddle within the container, a lubricant elevating wheel extending through the saddle and wiping element, and means for yieldingly supporting the wheel relative to the saddle, said wheel and its yielding supporting means being upheld by the first mentioned yielding means.

2. The combination With a lubricant container of a lubricator mounted therein and including a yieldingly supported saddle, a Wiping element carried thereby, a lubricant elevating Wheel extending through the saddle and Wiping element, guides therefor suspended from and supported solely by the 10 saddle, and yielding means upon the guides for supporting the Wheel relative to the saddle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

\VILLIAM C. MANESS.

lVitnesses JOHN L. DONNELLY, M. WV. BRENNAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained or five cents each, by ad ressing the Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. 0. 

